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#dependent-origination
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Reading group: Nāgārjuna on causes and conditions, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 1, 20 and 24
For my MA in Pune I work on Nyāya–Madhyamaka debates, and the opening of Nāgārjuna's Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way is where those debates start. I'd like to read three chapters together. Translation. Jay Garfield, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle…
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Reading group: Nagarjuna, Mulamadhyamakakarika chapter 1 (on conditions)
The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā opens with an examination of causal conditions (pratyaya). The first verse says that nothing arises from itself, from something else, from both, or without a cause. The chapter then examines the four types of condition recognised by the Abhidharma schools:…
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